FDA revokes Avastin’s approval for breast cancer treatment - The Washington Post

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday revoked the approval of the best-selling drug Avastin for treating advanced breast cancer in the United States, despite appeals from distraught patients and the company that manufactures the drug. FDA Administrator Margaret Hamburg  …

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Senators introduce "STOCK Act" to stop "insider trading" in Congress - - CBS News

A bill to stop "insider trading" in Congress is gaining momentum with two new Senate sponsors.  Sens.

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'UK speeding up planning for potential US-led Iran attack'

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GOP pushes for uranium mining around Grand Canyon

SUMMIT COUNTY — Republican lawmakers this week continued their frontal assault on the Obama administration’s public land policies by proposing legislation to open 1 million acres of public lands aournd the Grand Canyon National Park to new uranium mining.

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Camden County considering inmate firefighter program | jacksonville.com

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Rick Scott to Liberal Arts Majors: Drop Dead

Florida's unpopular tea party governor, Rick Scott, wants more of the state's youths to pick up college degrees... but only if the degrees are useful to corporations and don't teach students to question social norms.

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GOP Mega-Donor Koch Brothers' Company Tied To Global Criminal Misdeeds In Bombshell Article

A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades. Accord …

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Monsanto Corn Under Attack by Superbug - WSJ.com

Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co.

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Can Justice Be Bought? - NYTimes.com

Two years ago, the Supreme Court tried to bolster public trust in the nation’s justice system by disqualifying a state judge in West Virginia from a case that involved a coal company executive who had spent more than $3 million to help get the judge elected.

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Creationism creeps into mainstream geology

It was easy to miss the part where the field trip leader said the outcrop formed during Noah’s Flood.

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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter becoming a target for cost cutters - Charles Hoskinson - POLITICO.com

It’s the Pentagon’s largest acquisitions program — an ambitious effort to re-equip the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps with the latest stealth fighter technology designed to maintain U.S.

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Scientists Cry Foul Over Report Criticizing National Science Foundation - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

A report released by the office of Sen.

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Army report: Military has spent $32 billion since '95 on abandoned weapons programs

The Army’s Comanche helicopter was envisioned as “the quarterback of the digital battlefield,” a technologically superior aircraft that could hide from enemies, operate at night and in bad weather, and travel farther than any other helicopter.

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Cheaper Eye Drug Proves As Good As Pricier One : NPR

A much cheaper drug has proved just as good as a $2,000 monthly shot at treating a common eye disorder that can lead to blindness, a long-awaited study has found.

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I Want To Play Poker Against President Obama | The New Republic

Democratic partisans, like all partisans, generally overestimate the possibilities of winning better policy outcomes by simply having their leaders adopt more strident positions.

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Fossil hints to Earth's first flowers

INDIANA U. (US) — A 125 million-year-old fossil of an intact eudicot, a flowering plant family that includes buttercups and dandelions, has researchers arguing for an earlier origin of the eudicots—and perhaps flowering plants in general.

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Premature babies battle for survival at 'edge of life'

Babies born prematurely in the 23rd week of pregnancy exist on the very edge of life. A few go on to become "miracle babies", but most die. The figures are stark, only nine out of 100 will survive, and of that number most are disabled. Is it always right to keep them alive?

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To right, Citizens United just a start

Not satisfied by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to corporate-sponsored election ads, conservative opponents of campaign finance regulations have opened up a series of new legal fronts in their effort to eliminate the remaining laws restricting the flow o …

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How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again

epublicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two. This is what passes for compromise in our nation's capital.

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Eight GOP Senators Reignite Filibuster War With Blanket Threat To Block All Bills They Don't Like

"Just over one month ago, the Senate largely abandoned a plan to ambitiously reform the Senate rules after the GOP agreed to a "handshake deal" which would curb the unprecedented spike in filibusters since the GOP lost control of the Senate.

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Wisconsin union standoff: The real problem is money in politics - baltimoresun.com

Indiana Gov.

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The Hollow Cry of "Broke"

The federal deficit is too large for comfort, and most states are struggling to balance their books. Some of that is because of excessive spending, and much is because the recession has driven down tax revenues.

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On issues like global warming and evolution, scientists need to speak up

The central lesson of Climategate is not that climate science is corrupt. The leaked e-mails do nothing to disprove the scientific consensus on global warming.

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Creationist Kent Hovind's Doctoral Dissertation now available online!

Now everyone can read it: Kent Hovind's thesis from Patriot University has been scanned and put on the web. Remember to breathe now and then when you're laughing that hard.

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VIDEO: Climate Change emails-The conspiracy debunked

As usual Potholer54, a former science correspondent, does a great job of debunking the the conspiracy theory propaganda surrounding the hacked climate research emails.

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